Senior DevOps Engineer

Reed Technology; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment technology firm is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in London. The role involves managing cloud infrastructure, ensuring security and scalability while collaborating with teams to align infrastructure strategy with business goals. Candidates should have over 8 years in DevOps, strong experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. The position offers a hybrid working model with competitive benefits, including generous leave and health support.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible holiday scheme

Contributory pension scheme

Insurance benefits

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and Linux administration.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the cloud infrastructure ensuring security and scalability.
• Implement high-availability architectures across services.
• Design infrastructure for AI-powered workloads.
• Lead deployment pipeline management and CI/CD processes.

Skills

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Linux systems administration

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer

• Location: Holborn, Central London (Hybrid)
• Reporting to: Head of AI and Technology
• Job Type: Full-time

An exciting new permanent opportunity has become available for a Senior DevOps Engineer, to join a juggernaut organisation in the recruitment industry. A highly dynamic, ambitious and fast–business dedicated to transforming the recruitment landscape through AI-driven, human-centered technology.

They're seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who is passionate about building and maintaining robust cloud infrastructure and thrives in a dynamic startup environment. This role offers the opportunity to take ownership of the business cloud operations and drive the development of a world‑class platform.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Own and manage the cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security.
• Implement and maintain high‑availability architectures across critical services and data layers.
• Design and optimise infrastructure to support AI‑powered workloads and data pipelines.
• Lead cost optimisation initiatives across the platform.
• Manage the end‑to‑end deployment pipeline to ensure fast, reliable, and low‑friction releases.
• Maintain, optimise, and automate CI/CD processes.
• Ensure zero‑downtime deployment strategies and effective rollback procedures.
• Build and maintain a stable, efficient development environment for the engineering team.
• Provide tooling and automation to reduce friction and accelerate development velocity.
• Monitor system reliability, performance, and security across environments.
• Implement robust observability tools including logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
• Lead incident response, root‑cause analysis, and long‑term remediation.
• Ensure security best practices are embedded across infrastructure and pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with the wider team to align infrastructure strategy with product and business goals.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and Linux systems administration.
• Deep understanding of high‑availability architecture, networking, load balancing, and distributed systems.
• Proven experience supporting production SaaS environments.
• Strong understanding of monitoring and observability tooling.
• Excellent scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have but not essential:

• Experience with event‑driven architectures and NextJS/NodeJS build environments.
• Experience supporting data pipelines or AI/ML workloads.
• Background in startup environments and exposure to security frameworks or compliance processes.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working model (minimum 3 days a week in office).
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Flexible holiday scheme and paid time off to move home.
• Contributory pension scheme and enhanced family leave benefits.
• Insurance benefits including life assurance.
• Wellbeing and mental health support.

To apply for the Senior DevOps Engineer position, please submit your CV to be considered immediately.